Registered: Sep 2000
Location: Raleigh, NC
Posts: 832

Website Hosting

With the advent of .mac, I'm looking for a good spot to host my website, well three of them eventually. In the past, Apple would not let you create a discussion board on Homepage, so I had to go to EZ-board for this, at a cost to eliminate advertising. I also want to have some movies of the kids available for the grandparents, long trips out of town, etc.
My question is this - what hosting company will provide 100MB of storage competitive to $100yr? I cannot find the .mac bandwidth limitations and don't have a clue as to what I use. I'd like to stay with Apple, but if they are not going to allow a message board, and I have to pay to maintain an ad-free site, I need to go elsewhere. Any suggestions? Fixes for a message board? Thanks,

Registered: Apr 2000
Location: St Petersburg Fla
Posts: 224

Try this site:
http://www.10-best-web-site-and-dom...ndex.html?p=157

I haven't had a need for web hosting, so I can't vouch for the site's accuracy. May be useful for a starting point.

Registered: Feb 2002
Location: Midland, MI
Posts: 92

my friend keeps telling me dotster for the domain and phpwebhosting for the site host.

the hosting is about $27 per year, I think.

Registered: Oct 2000
Location:
Posts: 443

i highly recommend dreamhost .

mc

Registered: Dec 2000
Location: Petersburg, AK
Posts: 131

Dreamhost looks nice. I was pretty impressed with Omnistar and their customer service. When I'm in the market it looks like it will be either one of them...

Registered: Sep 2000
Location: Raleigh, NC
Posts: 832

Thanks for all the suggestions. I am, however, a HTML idiot and wouldn't know where to begin with FTP, so I stuck with .mac, shelled out my 1/2 price first year and decided to learn this stuff before the year is out so I could obtain cheaper hosting next go around.

Registered: Mar 2001
Location: Out of my skull, back in five minutes
Posts: 1435

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Originally posted by dampeoples
I am, however, a HTML idiot and wouldn't know where to begin with FTP

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Registered: Sep 2000
Location: Raleigh, NC
Posts: 832

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Originally posted by Yorick

You could have used the trial version of .mac to set up your website, then saved all the pages to your local hard disk, and uploaded them to your new host.
Or your could get Dreamweaver or any of a number of other visual website design software packages.
FTP is File Transfer Protocol. It's just a means of moving files. You need simple client software, such as Fetch, and it's like moving files from one disk to another.

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